Society has too high a standard for raising a child, and individuals can't see the benefits especially if they've come from a dysfunctional home. In addition folks are presented with a hypothetical cost of raising a child that is frankly absurd:

* You have to shelter and feed yourself. You _can_ fit more people so that expense doesn't count.
* You have to buy food for yourself. Food expenses don't increase in a linear manner as mouths increase.
* Public schools are free, and you aren't required to send anyone to a University.
* Child care doesn't have to be a pay-for service. Get creative.
* Shop at Goodwill first. Always.

I find having a family is overwhelmingly valuable, but also requires a giving mindset and some compromise. The value becomes more apparent as you age and all your older family and friends die off.

All these college grads who can't find jobs will in many cases start their own businesses. We've seen this cycle happen in the past. Except they will be leaner and more effective by leveraging AI/ML from the start and will operate without all the corporate baggage of C-suite staff with bloated salaries.

Even with great AI tools, you need competent people who can use them, and I'd suggest the young folks are going to have an advantage there. The companies that compete in the race to the bottom are sacrificing long term growth for short term gains in the name of making a quick buck.

As a Cigna customer, I can confirm they make a special effort to confound both customers, and medical billing offices to create "friction".

Personally I feel this deserves a class action lawsuit. Unfortunately I get whatever my employer provides, and that's that.

Yet another example of the Race to the Bottom, exemplified by Jack Welch running GE into the ground.

Take great brands that people trust, and slowly erode quality to increase profits until you've sucked up all the money and you're left with a dried-up husk of a company.

This smells like market manipulation. Imagine you're a feckless con that only cares about getting rich, and you're president. Have you and your friends pull money out of the stock market and put it into gold or crypto. Tank the market with tariffs, and then buy back into the market knowing that once you lift the tariffs everyone on the inside of this game will profit in a big way.

This is what Americans voted for. Choices have consequences folks.

This comment about DevOps and Ansible is worth unpacking a bit.

DevOps is a philosophy and a strategy for collaboration between development and operations, while Ansible is a tool for
automation. They are not substitutes for quality control, testing, or systems thinking. Effective DevOps requires a culture that
prioritizes reliability, safety, and design and it's up to an organization's leadership to promote that.

Seems simple to me. Pump all the money out of patients and medical insurers and dump them while spending as little as possible. This is a straightforward capitalist recipe just applied to healthcare. :(

How about stop using Java? I seem to recall there are other, and better, languages available these days...

I would tend to agree with the comment about teaching quality. I've attended everything from Community Colleges to prestigious ones. Some of the best teachers, in my opinion, were at the humble Community College. The high ranking schools can have absolute tyrants, who are more interested in getting students to figure out and jump through their hoops.

If I'm paying big bucks to learn, I don't care about the reputation. I want to be presented the material in a manner that I can make use of in the future.

I used to live in Columbus, doing tech work back in the early 2000's. After two years I noped the heck out of there. Nopedy nope nope. You couldn't pay me enough to live there on purpose.

I don't know if I'd say tech wages are too high, where I feel many tech positions are more like labor jobs. It sounds like restaurant and other service wages are too low. Tahoe's problem is simple economics of supply and demand. There is no demand for low paying jobs and awful working conditions, like a brutal commute. So yeah.

Pay folks enough to be able to live in town, and ta-da, problem solved. Sounds to me like the wealthy locals can afford to pay for the inflation they've caused.

I just bought a very expensive mini-van in '19 with the intent of keeping it for 20 years. I won't give it up easily just because there really isn't anything in all-electric mini-van market.

Probably because the UK has a contract and already approved it. So yeah.

My MacBook can run Windows just fine. Suck it Apple.

Don't you have to be convicted of a crime to be pardoned first? I'm guessing somebody is sitting on a pile of home-run litigation that will spring into place the day The Great Orange One walks out of the the presidency in January.